The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-19
"liorc everlasting spring ab!les, ~,
Aud never wfthering flowers. ~
Jack Frost with Icy breath divides n
Your ircst.cursed.lanl FROM orr. ),

Or words to that effect. Sh,rtly aite,
writing that George went to Texas and
embarked In the newspaper business
Doubtless be finds It warm enough there
But here 1t is quite the reverse. On Fri
day the thermometer went up to 60 In TIT
shade. Yesterday and to day 1t Is rang.
ing between 10 and rs. This has one ad
vantage 1t has frozen the mud still and
msde 1t poeeible to get around. The pre-
valence Of mud here Is a standing ioke
with come Of tho members and the sub.
Jet CT some profanity with others. A
newspaper man told me this evening tina,
In digging in Capital street, Just In front
Of the State House, the Commissioner IN
earthed a forgotten brick pavement. II
is no wonder the Charleston pavement
wears well. No wheel ever reaches ae
deep rs its surface. ,bta 50 4
"a Senator from the interior unburdened
himself to-day. He said when the Legis
lature arrived here and saw how uninvit.
ing everything looked except tho hand,
some Capitol erected by the State, and how
little improvement the city has made OF
tried to make in ten years past, II II he'd
rot been absolutely out Of the question
there would ha, Q been dozen bills intro.
duced looking 10 tho return Of the Capital
TO Wheeling. ! felt authorized topay that
II !. came back The State would build its
own Capitol. F,t= s'.g}ft' fEl
"Oh, we'll" said he,"Wheeline would
ct least furnish tho seuers, and here the
State had to provide drainage to the river
for the building" t'is'ls s'F
Tbis reminds rae of peculiar thing
about Charleston. All her street improve
mant Is done in winter.
Life here will be more tolersble now for
large crowds. Tho hotel Ruhner Is being
pushed rapidly to completion and this
morning for the first time breakfast " as
served in the building. About one hun
dred rooms have been finished and near
ly all OF them arc occupied. 4
A dramatic company headed by Nellie
FREQ and Phil Grsiner, and made up OF
pretty bad actors, is making yood thing
Of 1t here. They appear at the Cotton
Opera House for two eolid weeks playing
at 10 and ~ cents, and the house is liter
ally packed every night 1t is about the
only way to put in an evening here. The
best people amcns the citizens and visi-
tors 90, "io zee the npdieDccs." II a really
first class dramatic attraction would drift
this way it would do well.
The absence OF morning paper here is
severely felt just now. Tho hunger for
the day's rews is remarkable. The Wheel.
ing papers are Rob5led up like hot cakes
as BOON IS tho X. j. O. train arrives. So
;sr it has been diGieult to supply the de-
mand for INTELLlGENcER's. The Cincin-
uati papers are aleo snatched up eagerly,
especially the evening papers, which get
here in the morning. This Simply OF nsws.
papers in general IH not. at all adequate to
the demand just nov. j.. - ~
The captain Of the Salvation army got
of q good one lass night. The army was
paradins up snd down Front street, and
as they passed the St. Albert hotel, the
captain, a buxom lass OF about $50 pounds,
With voice "accordin," cried out:
"sing up now hoya, here's where the
Legislature stops.4 ~ ri1ii-.-
a member passing asked her: "Do
yon expect TO recruit from the Legisla-
ture?" ia,S rs IS
',Nobody'a past redemption" she re-
torted, "sine hearty, boysl" w.sr.